Communication At A Glance

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The Beginning of Communication.
The phone is easily one of man’s most important, useful and taken for granted inventions. It wonderfully extended the way man talks that are crucial to daily life. Before I tell of the history of how the telephone was constructed and put in to place, I will tell of the past of communications.
Ever since the ability of language and written language, the most popular form of communication was done through a letter. Carrier pigeons were used in the Olympic games to send messages from 700 BC to 300 AD. In 1791, the Chappe brothers created the Semaphore system; they were two teens in France who wanted to be able to contact each other from their different school campuses. This system consisted of a pole with movable arms, which the positions took the place of letters of the alphabet. Two years later, this idea had caught on and was being used in France, Italy, Russia, and Germany. Two semaphore systems were built in the U.S. in Boston and on Martha’s Vineyard; soon Congress was asked to fund a project for a semaphore system running from New York City to New Orleans. Samuel Morse told Congress that not to fund the project because he was developing the electric telegraph. Soon Samuel Morse developed his electric telegraph he demonstrated it in 1844 it caught on and by 1851, 51 telegraph companies were in operation. In addition, it continued to grow to 2250 telegraph offices nationwide. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone. (Stewart, B. 1997).
The Bell System
Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh. He grew up involved in the study of speech due to his father and grandfathers work. He was also a talented musician able to play by ear from a very early age. He and his two brothers built a model human skull and filled it with a good enough reproduction of the human vocal apparatus, which worked with a bellows, so it would be able to say, "Ma-ma." Alexander became a Pro...